Chapter 894: War Begins

Zhang Lu and Liu Bei surrendered to Wang Yan successively, and Wang Yan had begun to rule Hanzhong and the eastern part of Yangzhou, implemented various systems, carried out large-scale production and construction, and began to train militia. Cao Cao was of course anxious.

They knew very well that if they did not attack Wang Yan, then after four or five years, Wang Yan would have sufficient food and fodder and trained many reorganized troops, and then Wang Yan would definitely come to attack them. Similarly, they also knew that if they did not attack Wang Yan in the next few years, Wang Yan would definitely not attack them, and would even trade with them in a friendly manner and exchange what they had.

Although many wealthy families and families who had traded with Wang Yan in the past had been ruined, no one would give up doing business with each other. Everyone knew that Wang Yan would kill them one day, but the profit from trade was too great, and Wang Yan had a lot of necessary materials, so they could not do without trade.

On the one hand, they were happy to make money and their family became stronger and more prosperous in this chaotic world. On the other hand, they lamented the uncertain future of their family. Looking at the northern land, they thought about the power of the thief Wang, said ugly dirty words, were angry and frightened, and countless midnight dreams were all about cutting off their flesh and blood one by one, and becoming a skeleton with porcelain hanging on it for anyone to play with. That was really terrifying.

In the past, they still swore that Wang Yan had no one in his hands, and they still had to rely on them to govern the world. But they watched Wang Yan start from papermaking step by step, and then print books, and then find Cai Yong, attracting many poor scholars, and promoting culture and education. Over the past ten years, a large number of people who can write and calculate have been cultivated. They were allowed to go deep into the grassroots, and the most basic pavilion-level administrative units were completely included in the scope of rule.

At the same time, the three elders were abolished, the clans were broken, the clans and clan laws were eliminated, and students from each village were selected to serve as village heads to assist the pavilion heads in carrying out governance work, and the king's law was deeply rooted in the village and every household.

At that time, Wang Yan had not yet gone south to Youzhou, and everyone realized how harmful Wang Yan was. However, at that time, the princes fought each other, and their interests were complicated and involved. There was no way to organize forces to kill Wang Yan. As a result, step by step, today, Wang Yan unified the north, and there was no powerful family under his rule. Even the Zhen family only occupied a lot of positions because there were many literate people in the family. The main force was still strong in business and trade.

Their family no longer had a huge amount of land and no private soldiers. The family was indeed strong, but it was also declining. Compared with the strength of the Zhen family in Wuji back then, there was no power of the powerful family at this time. It could only be said that it was a wealthy family.

But everyone knew that money was never the most important thing. As long as they had power, they would have money. This is also the reason why business has been a cheap profession since ancient times. Only the most unpromising children would go into business. But now there is money but no power, so no matter how much money you have, it is just meat on the chopping board and it is difficult to become a climate.

The nobles believed that even if Wang Yan killed them now, there would still be nobles under his rule in the future. They would still corrupt and control the power of the empire little by little, and eventually become the same as before in the Han Dynasty. This is their understanding of themselves and human nature. People are just greedy.

But so what? Because they are dead. The nobles who corrupt and control the power of Wang Yan's empire will not be them, which is too bad...

So they are actually more urgent than Cao Cao. Liu Bei surrendered to Wang Yan, making the Yangtze River not a dangerous obstacle. Zhang Lu surrendered to Wang Yan, making Bashu not impossible to enter despite the obstacles. Moreover, Wang Yan unified the north and was strong. No matter how you look at it, it is ten to one.

Therefore, they finally connected themselves. Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Liu Zhang of Yizhou were directly put on the sword and stepped down. These two people were not decent, so they helped them to be decent. Although it was indeed humiliating, the two did save their lives.

As a superior, if there are no two diehards, this position will not last long. So there were still some unrests, and a lot of people died. In the end, these nobles completely eliminated the opposition in the country, handed over Jingzhou and Yizhou to Cao Cao, and welcomed Cao Cao to rule them with drums and gongs.

At this time, it was also spring. After Liu Bei handed over power, Cao Cao completely unified all forces except Sun Ce and Shi Xie. His sphere of influence included most of Yangzhou, the entire territory of Jingzhou, and all areas of Yizhou except Hanzhong. The population under his rule reached 13 million, which was huge in an instant.

And it was not just simply huge, because the nobles of Jingzhou and Yizhou welcomed Cao Cao very much. This was their hope to fight against Wang Yan together. So this led to the unimpeded flow of Lao Cao's orders, the high administrative efficiency under his rule, and the unprecedented unity of the ruling class, which was determined to kill the thief and return China to stability.

This is the thought they summed up. The harm of the thief has poisoned the world for thousands of years, causing turmoil in the mountains and rivers, the people's livelihood, and the people's hearts. If the thief is not destroyed and his laws are not abolished, China will perish. They have the obligation and responsibility to save the people of the world, restore the Han Dynasty, and return to the old capital.

For this reason, some of them wrote history, fabricated Wang Yan's experience, and made Wang Yan play an important role in the Yellow Turbans, as if the Yellow Turbans were initiated by Wang Yan, and attacked Wang Yan's policies, criticized Wang Yan's character, and denied everything he did.

Not only did they frame him, they also learned how Wang Yan promoted his policies and promoted them to the people, saying that Wang Yan was a demon who deserved to be cut into pieces, and that only by killing Wang Yan could the people live a good life.

They united their strength, attacked with words, distorted history, and engaged in a war of public opinion. Therefore, these people are the best at self-reform. They have been changing, but they have never changed.

Wang Yan certainly knew about their movements, and even boldly wrote an article condemning Wang Yan and sent it to him, hoping to publish it in the newspaper. Of course, they knew that it would not be published, but they sent it to Wang Yan specifically for him to read. This is called attacking the heart, a serious advanced military strategy. The biggest taboo in using troops is not to raise an army in anger.

Wang Yan laughed it off. No matter how much they said, it would not help. In the end, it still depends on their strength. If they are not strong, what's the use of just scolding? A slap in the face will be enough.

Before this, when contacting Liu Bei to surrender, Cao Cao had marched into Wuhu and other places in the north of Danyang. This was Liu Bei's territory. Lao Cao hoped to force the rebellion of the nobles under Liu Bei's rule through external military pressure.

But although Liu Bei was not as tough as General Wang in slaughtering the powerful families, and did not ease up at all, he was consciously suppressing the powerful families and employing more poor families.

Of course, the people two thousand years later should not flatter themselves. They are not qualified to be called poor families. Poor families are ruined nobles, and their families must be landlords at the worst.

So the powerful families under Liu Bei's rule failed to rebel successfully. And Wang Yan's speed of mobilizing troops was very fast, without any military vacancies, and Taishi Ci and others were very strong. They came and fought with Lao Cao first, and beat them back fifty miles, and then turned back to quell the chaos.

After that, the two sides resisted each other, only small-scale confrontations, no large-scale wars, and they were all developing on their own.

Generally speaking, Cao Cao's development absorbed some of Wang Yan's experience, of course not imitating him, otherwise they should have killed themselves and handed over the great country. What they learned the most was farming.

Learn the farming methods and farming tools invented by a large number of doctors of agriculture and engineering on Wang Yan's side. They even want to trade grain from Wang Yan to increase grain production. They also learn from Wang Yan to organize large-scale production of the army.

Another important point is to organize craftsmen to research and produce weapons and go all out to prepare for war.

Of course, more importantly, Lao Cao uses his wise mind and tough political skills to continuously deepen his control over Jing and Yi states.

In contrast, General Wang is very relaxed here, and everything is developing step by step.

All parts of the country are busy with production and construction, farming, road construction, water conservancy, bridge construction, and so on. Various doctors in Wenchang Pavilion are constantly solving practical problems.

Wang Yan certainly encourages the development of theoretical science, but there is no doubt that with the current social situation, what is more needed is applied science. What should be done is to solve practical production and construction problems. There is no bottleneck in the current scientific development. General Wang has been in business for 20 years. He has only opened a political cheating foundation. The development is still an agricultural society. Why should he think about the longer-term scientific direction?

Generally speaking, the ability to solve problems is still there. Although it is very primitive, scientific thinking has been developed and developed very rapidly. In this regard, the Chinese have never been bad, and are even far ahead.

Wang Yanzhi just needs to watch, and he will always be surprised. Hearing that there is a madman in Wenchang Pavilion who has studied boiling water recently, he knows that it has succeeded. After all, boiling water is praised as the highest technology of mankind. Although it is a joke, it means that it is not a joke.

And all this is just his encouragement of invention and creation, solving practical problems, and determining the status of craftsmen.

As long as the system is determined, the work process is adhered to, and there is strong supervision, everything will develop very smoothly.

The people farm and serve in the military, then the corresponding various doctors solve the problems of farming and military preparation, and the generals study better training soldiers and fighting. The people participate in public construction to make money, then various doctors solve the problems of the economy behind it, the tools of construction, the rationality of the building, and how to build efficiently.

For the people's lives, they need oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, salt, sugar, cloth, and various tools, so various doctors and businessmen go to solve and enrich these things.

The people always have all kinds of strange disputes, which the law cannot stipulate in detail, and there are always problems that local officials do not know how to solve and deal with. Then, in combination with reality, the central government constantly introduces and improves laws, considers them as comprehensively and meticulously as possible, and keeps up with social development.

If businessmen are arrogant and study various ways to evade taxes, then they will fill in various loopholes. If they are even more arrogant, they dare to collude with officials and act lawlessly, then they will be served with an iron fist.

If officials are arrogant and do not do their job well, then they will strengthen supervision and regulation, constantly improve laws, and never tolerate them.

If the army is arrogant and lawless, then they will rectify the army, kill those who should be killed, and beat those who should be beaten.

If scholars are arrogant, then they will rectify the literary style.

If the atmosphere is arrogant, then they will intensify the rectification and forcefully reverse it.

In the final analysis, it is still necessary to grasp the people well. If the people live a good life, then everything is not a problem, and there is always a way to solve the problem.

Therefore, Wang Yan did not just stay in Luoyang City in the past few years, but went to various places for inspection. Now he controls such a large area of ​​land, and it still retains its previous appearance. Many ancient monuments that disappeared later are all fresh at this time. In fact, he has not been to many places since he came here. It is nothing more than a rough inspection as the pace of expansion.

This time he was relatively free, and there were precedents for various things, so it didn't really matter whether he was there or not. So he let Jia Xu and Liu Bei supervise the country, and he himself took a bunch of children over ten years old and a hundred guards to start a grand inspection, and by the way, take a trip to ancient times.

Bringing a bunch of children, of course, was not for observation, but simply because they heard about it and wanted to go, so he took them. As for the so-called danger, under his rule, no one dared to pretend to be his name. No matter where he went, he only raised his arms and called, and in an instant, the army was by his side, and he would attack whoever he said.

Similarly, Jia Xu and Liu Bei did not have the conditions to rebel, and even if they really took action, Wang Yan would not have to go too far, just go around Luoyang, and there would be a hundred thousand troops.

This is the important role of the people's hearts, and it is an absolute manifestation of his personal supreme influence.

He started from Luoyang, first inspected the construction work in Yangzhou and Henan, then went north to Jizhou, Youzhou, and even to the northeast. He walked a long way, all the way to the northernmost village on the list. Then he went west, entered the grassland, and then went to Liangzhou to inspect the construction of these two places, and more importantly, the ethnic integration. He even left Liangzhou and led his troops to the Western Regions.

Han Sui, this old guy, is quite cunning. He relied on his stick and spearhead to also roll up the barbarians in the Western Regions. Along the way, he destroyed various countries and rolled up the barbarians in the Western Regions to go further west.

However, Han Sui did not go too far and did not dare to stay in the Western Regions. Wang Yan let him go to fight the Kushans, not to let him settle down in the Western Regions. Han Sui had no doubt that if he did not take real action, Wang Yan would really send a large army to kill him. There was no way, it was really Wang Yan was too powerful. Liao Hua led more than 6,000 cavalry and defeated him in one winter. Wang Yan still had more troops to mobilize.

So over the past many years, Han Sui has started fighting with Kushan. It is said that he is doing well and is advancing outward. Wang Yan is his firm logistics supply line. Various battlefield emergency medicines developed by medicine, finished cotton clothes, and weapons and equipment are continuously transported from Liangzhou across a distance of thousands of miles.

Wang Yan led his troops to the Western Regions just for precaution to see if there are any hidden dangers. He did not really want to go to Han Sui to see Han Sui's situation. After all, it was too far away and it was not worth it. He would never have the opportunity to see it in his life.

After inspecting Liangzhou, he went to Bingzhou, then to Hanzhong, and finally passed Chang'an, crossed Hangu Pass, and returned to Luoyang.

This trip took General Wang six years to walk. Along the way, he killed many people, gained more people's hearts, and saw many scenery. It was very good.

Of course, the furry children who followed along the way were replaced. After all, the rain and dew are evenly distributed. As for the wife who had been guarding the empty bed for six years, that was the case.

Luoyang is more prosperous. All kinds of construction have been completed. The dilapidated city walls surround a new city. The city is crowded with people, noisy and prosperous.

Wang Yan put his hands behind his back, not at all tired from traveling for many years, but natural, with a sense of transcendence.

He smiled and nodded to the people who opened their eyes wide and recognized him, and walked on the street to the imperial city.

Many people recognized him, after all, his portrait was realistic, exactly like him, and he had not changed much in all these years. Every household has his longevity card and his portrait. If one or two people can't recognize him, they will recognize him when there are more people.

Just like that, the road that was not close to begin with took a long time to walk, and he had a meal in a good restaurant in the middle. It was not until the evening that he really returned to the imperial city.

Jia Xu and Liu Bei were waiting for a long time, just in time to have dinner with Wang Yan.

Wang Yan ate meat with big mouthfuls and listened to the two people report their work.

In fact, he knew a lot of things, and he had always received their reports. In summary, after six years of great construction, the area under his rule had become prosperous, with sufficient food and fodder, especially in recent years, the population had exploded and had exceeded the 20 million mark.

This was because the children born under Wang Yan's rule in recent years had grown up and got married, and if they had one child every two years, they would have given birth to several batches. In addition, the development of medicine, the corresponding health construction, and the continuous training of professional female doctors ensured the survival of the babies. Moreover, many women and children had given birth to many new populations in Henan before, so it was not surprising that the population had exploded.

It was just that the new populations were all children, and they were not yet usable.

Other undertakings were developing steadily, and the situation was very good.

Then there was Lao Cao, who had been developing for many years, and had a well-trained army and sufficient food, ready to fight at any time. The recent minor frictions in Danyang had become more and more serious, from the previous scout confrontation to a small-scale war involving hundreds or thousands of people.

It can be seen from this that Lao Cao could no longer hold back and wanted to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible. The main reason is that Wang Yan's development is too fast. In the same six years, Yangzhou can be significantly compared. Cao dare not delay any longer. The damn Wang Yan has gone out to travel. He really doesn't take him seriously.

So to sum up, it is time to start the war.

"After the autumn harvest, attack Cao Cao."

Wang Yan made the decision to start the war this year, and then asked, "How about the improvement of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, etc. found overseas?"

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Potatoes and sweet potatoes have been cultivated for several times, and now they are more than twice our grain varieties. In addition... General, there will be no more famine in China in the future."

Liu Bei also laughed along, and was very impressed by Wang Yan's persistence and dedication.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn have many uses. They can be eaten by humans and livestock, and can also be made into starch, vermicelli, etc. They have been fully promoted in the past few years, and people will never go hungry again.

It is clear that General Wang is about to realize the slogan he shouted when he started his business, that everyone will have three meals a day. He is really doing it...

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